Hwang In-hoon, Chief Executive Officer of NVIDIA, gave a keynote address at the GTC Paris Summit (Viva Tech) and announced that 20 artificial intelligence plants would be built in the EU and that a “large-scale” artificial intelligence cloud platform would be developed in cooperation with the French initial-initiative AI, Mistral AI.
The first AI plant will be located in Germany, with 10,000 GPUs, and is expected to become operational in 2026 as the core facility for the “first industrial AI cloud in the world”. It plans to increase Europe ‘ s AI computing capacity tenfold over the next two years, responding to the surge in global AI computing needs. In 2024, Britain received $96 billion in global revenues, 80 per cent of AI-related business and about 20 per cent of European market contributions, an investment that reflects its focus on Europe ‘ s AI ecology.
In collaboration with the French company Mistral AI, Inc. (the French Bank for Public Investment), Weida announced the creation of the largest AI campus in Europe in Paris, including the AI Cloud Platform and the Research and Development Centre. Mistral AI is known for its high-impact open source model (e.g. Mixtral 8x22B), valued at $6 billion in 2024, as a leading European AI enterprise.
Hoang In-hoon stated that the two sides would integrate the DGX Cloud Lepton platform in Wevda with Mistral’s model technology to build a “global AI infrastructure linking European developers”. The AI cloud will support industrial design, scientific simulation and generation AI applications, and the first services are expected to be online in early 2026. It also plans to establish AI technology centres in seven European Union countries, namely, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands, with a total investment of more than $5 billion and an expected 5,000 direct jobs.
The 20 AI factories in Weida, which are expected to land gradually by 2027, are expected to add 10 million TFLOPS to the EU, covering the industrial, medical and autopilot sectors. The AI cloud cooperation with Mistral AI will accelerate the adoption of the Generable AI by European enterprises, especially in the areas of automobiles (such as Siemens’s cooperation with Britain) and scientific research.
In 2024, the European AI market, which reached $47.6 billion in size, is expected to surpass $80 billion in 2028. The AI plant programme in Weida will boost European catch-up in the production of AI and industrial digitization, challenging the leading position of the United States ($131.6 billion market size).
In addition, the competitions of Ingweida, such as AMD and Intel, are also doing their best in Europe, and AMD plans to invest $2 billion in Germany to build a data centre.